In this edition of the 2TM News Podcast Romy Gilbert chats with Betty Chetcuti a psychologist and Board Director at the Australian Association of Psychologists. Betty practices psychology out of Melbourne from her own private practice and has first-hand watched the mental health landscape worsen since the beginning of the pandemic. Join Romy as she discusses with Betty the current mental health crisis, how it is impacting people in lockdown, what the long term flow-on effects of the lockdown could be, how social media affects our mental health in a pandemic, and what are the key mental health survival tips for enduring a lockdown/global pandemic.
Find out more about the "shadow pandemic" mental health crisis in this edition of the 2TM News Podcast.
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